Wow had my first "death" dream in a while last night

anyone else get killed in their dreams frequently? Of course just waking up before that fatal moment. I have frequent dreams that are almost always set in the same cityscape which is eerily familiar yet alien like it's a alternate universe version of a real city where things are just slightly off. The detail is incredible when I can recall it. Anyhoo I used to have many dreams that depicted my own death. Usually by very unsavory means, but with the old standbys(falling, plane crash) included along with stuff like tornadoes, giant monsters and being shot. Last night scarily enough I got shot. The dream itself was pretty mundane, except that somewhere in it I wandered into an area I wasn't supposed to go and a group of non-descript soldiers pursued and eventually shot me. I woke up just as a rifle shot hit my chest in the dream, covered in cold sweat, heart banging like a drum and the whole nine yards. Any dream experts out there want to tell me what part of my subconscious these are being pulled from because I'll ask my shrink for pills to supress it lol.

Suddenly, all the people who live there are either very distant or even aggressive and they refuse to give me directions. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. I think we both have a touch of paranoia.

I wish I could sue the administration for mental duress. I wasn't this screwed up 7 years ago.

stress in the last 5 years. gee, I wonder why??? * is a threat to our health.

that yu will die, but that is total BS. I have had a few of these dreams in my life (in the most memorable one I was also shot), and I usually dream the death part too. The death part was always quite peaceful. The only upsetting part after getting shot (which was traumatic) were the loved ones who were still alive and freaking that I was killed. I was floating above them wanting to comfort them. Then I would feel something pulling at me and I would fade out of the dream.

I don't really believe in the die in your dream theory either it is just the pattern with me and probably the majority and it is probably that particular superstition that causes it. Great story, thanks.

then I'd go back to sleep and it was like on rewind. The nightmare would start over and I'd wake up, calm down, go back to sleep and it would start over again. After my sleep apnea was diagnosed and I got my BIPAP machine, they ceased. I've slept a whole lot better in the last 3 years.

of being able to restart a dream almost instantly. I believe I probably have apnea to a certain extent too. It seems to be better after we made a change of beds.

It's made a great difference in my life. I was always tired, sometimes even nodding off, nightmares every night. I occasionally still get nightmares but not like the ones before and they're no longer on rewind and start over and over.

don't know who he was or why I killed him, but I was mad at my husband for not helping me carry him out of the house.. I had to drag him out.. I sat him up on the front porch bench and then I woke up :)

It's almost exclusively in self defense of some sort though as far as I can remember.

About a week ago, I dreamed that I was on vacation with my husband. He left to go get coffee in the morning and didn't come back until that night. I was pissed at him all day!

As a grown up, I've dreamed of watching a murder in that dark cityscape you mention and not being able to stop it. Specifically wanting to scream or talk but losing my voice. It seems I know the murderer but the victim is just some random guy. And it's always a knife to the throat.

As a child, I dreamt of having to clean up a murder in the house I live in now. We had been on vacation or something, anyway gone for a while. Body parts all in different pillowcase sacks. :wtf: Actually stored in the room where I sit now.

I have had the falling dream too, but I always wake up before I hit the ground.

Minds are wierd. :crazy:

Yeah I wonder where the hell mine gets some of the shit that gets pumped into my subconcious. Some of my dreams would make great movies too but I can never remember enough of them to write it all down.

On and off, since I was 7 or 8 years old. I have been hanged, shot, drowned, fallen off high buildings, run off cliffs in my car. The rape dreams are the worst (I am female). I can't say I attribute them to my military service 'cause they started so young. I had a very rough childhood, with lots of abuse. I've never sought professional help but never felt the dreams interfered in my awake life. I have not been able to figure out why those dreams return 'cause I'm never under any stress or changes in my life when the rear their ugly head.

Go figure.

...and they can really rattle you.

I also have tornado dreams. I've had a reoccurring tornado dream since childhood. After
a few years of therapy they finally stopped.

I'm no expert, but my therapist has told me that dreaming about being the victim of tornadoes,
falling, etc---are about feeling a loss of control or feeling as if something bigger than
you has you in its grip.

Interesting that your recent dream involved soldiers and also a familiar city that was also
alien to you. Sounds like fear of war or invasion. Coincidentally, Saturday night I had
an incredibly vivid dream. I was in some big building. Like you, the place felt alien--but
familiar. I had this sensation like I'd been there before, but I couldn't remember when
or in what context. In my dream, really bad aliens were disguised as American soldiers. They
were going to blast everyone in the bldg. My entire dream was me trying to hide myself and
my kids and husband, before the blasting started. I tried to build a "false wall" and hide
in other places.

In my dream I said to everyone, "We have to get out of this building! I remember in 'War
of the Worlds', these people find you in houses! We have to run into the woods because
that was the safest place in 'War of the Worlds!'"

I still have that dream with me! That dream was from the depths of my subconscious.
WOTW scared the holy hell out of me. It really tapped into fears that I have. So now,
when I'm upset about something in real life (how our government or police act), I
dream about WOTW-type-stuff. The WOTW stuff is a SYMBOL for current fears.

Your cityscape in your dream is probably some place, or bits of places--that mean something
to you. The place represents fears or strong emotion. So, when your mind is feeling
fearful or upset--it goes to that cityscape--and high-drama events that play out. Those
events probably represent many current fears. Living with this administration...that's
understandable.

I was trying to understand a horrible nuclear war dream that I had. I began searching
dream message boards all over. You wouldn't believe how many people are dreaming about
invasions, nuclear war and being bombed in their own houses. Every board had people
discussing these nightmares. I can't help but conclude that many people in this
country sense danger with this administration.

And who knows what the power of the subconscious holds. These dreams that represent
very core fears--could be about sensing danger up ahead.

Not good. Reagan managed to scare me enough as a child in the 80's to give me recurring nuke dreams. Usually it would manifest as my family huddled together in the basement of the church we went to listening to the sirens blaring and waiting for the flash. Growing up near a military base helped with that one I'm sure. We all figured Ft. Drum would be a target. Maybe a little presumptious back then because at the time it might have been too small to warrant Moscows attention. Thanks Ronnie.

in a tornado area. But recently, I did have a terrible dream about bombs dropping more like a nightmare.

and attacks me when I finally jump in.

Strangely enough many of them occured in an indoor setting. My bedroom would become filled with water and the furniture was like islands you could jump to and stay away from the sharks.

about being shot. I was in some public park, and I walked into this enclosed basketball court thingy. I sat down, and saw that there was this older guy with white hair, wearing a leather jacket and dark glasses, sitting near me. He got up, and I got up to follow him, but at the entrance to the enclosure he turned around and shot me in the head. After that there was a moment of darkness, and then I segued abruptly into another dream. To this day I have no idea what the hell this was all about.